Zen goes to fight the Professionals! Takemiya 9p vs Zen19s!

 This just was posted by ez4u on L19. It is exciting news about the computer go world! Let us see how much time mankind has left in superior dominance over electronic circuits!

There is an article on the Nihon Kiin web site, posted Monday, announcing a special event to be held on March 17th at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo. First Ohashi Hirofumi, 5p, and then Takemiya Masaki, 9p, will each play two games against Zen. In the morning, Ohashi will play two even games on a 9x9 board, alternating W/B with 20 minutes main time and 30 byo yomi. In the afternoon, Takemiya will then play two games on a 19x19 board with 30 minutes main time and 60 seconds byo yomi. In Takemiya's case the first game will be on five stones. The second game will be adjusted up or down one stone based on the result of the first. The event will run from 09:30 to 18:00 with no entry fee. O Meien, 9p, will be the commentator with the assistance of Yashiro Kumiko, 5p. There will be no entry fee.

It does not appear that this will happen on KGS. The article mentions TeamDeepZen, so I assume that they will be playing against Zen19s, the distributed version of Zen. I wonder whether the team will run it on a larger network for this event.

I will post a update of the games once I get my hands on them!

- adoreme

Tromp bet - The result: Welcome our new Lord Zen!

A week ago the Tromp bet games have been played and the results from last year have been reversed and Zen beat Tromp solidly. Tromp won the first game by resignation but lost the two games after that and thus lost the bet! Welcome our new Lord Zen the bot!

Game 1:
(Won't upload to gokifu somehow. Will fix it later somehow...)

Game 2:


Game 3:

Man vs Machine - The tromp bet

 I bet many KGS players know of this bet from last year. Now it has been renewed and we will see how much the computer can do now. Below the gogameguro article and Darren's message on the bet.

Tromp bet: January 13, 8pm US Eastern Time on KGS, the contender Zen is sporting a dual 6-core Xeon X5680 (overclocked to 4.2Ghz) so let us see how far the computer can go.

Many of you followed the Go Bet event in London at the end of 2010,
where John Tromp triumphed and I was forced to hand over the $1000. Now
it is time to see if the bots have improved in the past 12
months, as John will play another match with a computer program.

 When: During January 2012 (exactly when will be announced soon)
 Where: On KGS
 Format: Best-of-5 (first to three wins)
 Rules: Chinese, 7.5pt komi
 Time: 90 minutes each, with byo-yomi of 25 stones per 10 minutes
 Hardware: (to be announced)

Yamato, the author of Zen, was reluctant to take part a year ago, unsure
of the outcome. Well, this year he has agreed to take part. A sign the
machines have improved... or just over-confidence?

Darren

P.S. The match is online this time, and there is no wager, so my only
involvement is the publicity :-)


-- 
Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer

http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/2012-January/004527.html


http://gogameguru.com/man-machine-showdown-board-game-go/